League One football club boasts 'Champions League-level' festive halftime food

League One highflyers Stockport County are taking halftime nutrient to a caller level with this highly festive treat, and shot fans crossed the state are precise jealous of the 'bargain'

Christmas is conscionable astir the corner, and Stockport County has embraced the vacation tone with an innovative repast that's definite to spell down a dainty astatine halftime.

After achieving promotion to League One this year, the nine seems to beryllium doing the concern some connected and disconnected the pitch, if their culinary instauration is thing to spell by. The 'Christmas meal successful a cup' has captured the imaginativeness of fans nationwide, leaving them anxious to illustration it.

The crockery was highlighted by Football Away Days connected X (formerly Twitter), wherever it rapidly went viral. "Stockport County's Christmas Dinner successful a Cup, a delicious offering of tender turkey, savoury stuffing, creamy mash, and affluent gravy," the relationship posted, paired with an enticing representation of the festive feast. "£4.50. Absolute bargain."

Complete with brussels sprouts, pigs successful blankets, and roast potatoes, the cupful prompted 1 X idiosyncratic to say: "A batch of pubs would determination that connected a sheet and complaint £18. Pick retired the sprouts and that's a apical halftime warmer!"

Another admirer remarked: "If clubs were judged connected food, Stockport County would beryllium successful the Champions League. That looks amazing." And a 3rd bare instrumentality shared: "Very tasty, imaginative and looks amended than immoderate pub Christmas dinner. Well done Stockport."

When Stockport County archetypal unveiled the unsocial culinary instauration successful 2022, they announced: "Bovril has been a long-standing match-day favourite, heating the terraces up and down the state connected a acold winter's day, but present Stockport County is aiming to capable the stands of Edgeley Park with festive cheer, creating the nation's archetypal Christmas meal successful a cup.

"Dripping successful gravy, this tasty lucifer time must-have has been created to present immoderate festive magic connected and disconnected the pitch. Celebrating the motorboat of the County Courtyard instrumentality zone, it comes implicit with each the festive trimmings you'd expect to spot connected Christmas time including roast turkey, pigs successful blanket, mash potato, gravy, stuffing, and Brussel sprout."

CEO Jonathan Vaughan was quoted connected the club's website astatine the time, adding: "Fusing Christmas traditions with wintertime shot traditions, Christmas meal successful a cupful has been designed to bring immoderate festive cheer to Edgeley Park, adding to County's already electrical atmosphere."